Abby Hadassah Smith

Abby Hadassah Smith (June 1, 1797 – July 23, 1879) was an early American suffragist who campaigned for property and voting rights from Glastonbury, Connecticut. She was a subject of the book Abby Smith and Her Cows in which her sister Julia Evelina Smith told the story of a tax resistance struggle they undertook in the suffrage cause.

Smith's mother authored one of the earliest anti-slavery petitions, presented to the United States Congress by John Quincy Adams. The family was united in support of her advocacy of education, abolition and women's rights.

The Smiths of Glastonbury—namely, Smith, her sisters, and her mother—were inducted wholesale into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 1994.

Suffrage-related activism Smith was educated at Emma Willard’s Seminary in Troy, New York and was known to have kept a diary in both French and Latin. In 1869, Smith and her sister, Julia, attended a woman’s suffrage meeting in Hartford, Connecticut. The sisters took the town to court and ultimately won their case.